I recently installed Windows 10 on my machine. I logged in with my Microsoft account, as usual. But I noticed something strange: instead of being named "Thomas" as in Windows 8, my profile folder (in ...

I just upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I would like to create a new local admin and remove the administrator privileges from my main user. I created the new user but when I try to login I get ...

I need little help for deleting all the user profile form the Computer within my domain. if user is not logged in to particular computer for Than x Day in my case 60 Days.
i have tried with default ...

I changed entries in regedit a couple years ago when I installed a ssd to have my user account on a different drive. That drive is failing and even if I create a new account, the new account ends up ...

What are the some solutions to manage synchronizing your $HOME profile files (.profile, .gdbrc, .vimrc, etc...) across several machines that are not necessarily the same distrib/OS (Debian, RedHat, ...

Run as administrator now is broken the second time for me again after recreating user account locally.
Neither on the command line nor via the context menu I can run as programs as an administrator ...

I thought this was simply a matter of doing an effective
scp -r user@PC:Application\ Data/Roaming/Thunderbird ~/Library/Application\ Support/
and restarting Thunderbird. But when I do this I get this ...

After a power outage I've noticed almost nothing in my Ubuntu desktop is as if it was before.
My home folder appears to be just fine, as are my desktop files. However, Compiz had no preferences setup ...

For several years i had a running dropbox installation pointing to a home directory on a network drive associated with my roaming profile in a windows 2012 environment.
Some days ago, i realized that ...

There are two users on my remote machine. One is olduser, another one is newuser.
Olduser ssh console is working and looking differently than newuser connection.
There are two folders for each user in ...

The problem:
I cannot log into either of two migrated profiles on an OSX 10.6 system
What I did:
I'm rebuilding an OSX 10.6 system for someone due to a failing disk. The old disk was unbootable but ...

I am getting the message "The User Profile Service failed the logon" for my only admin account. All fixes I can find require an admin account or admin permission, which I cannot do due to the error. ...

While moving some user folders from one harddrive back to the "default" location, I accidentally set the "My Videos" folder to be c:\Users[userprofile]
I managed to fix the Registry to rename the "My ...

I am trying to uncover anything useful from my corrupted Chrome profile (as Chrome doesn't sync a lot of things, like extensions local data, etc.) and I'm not sure what I should or should not copy.
...

I recently encountered an error that my Windows 7 user profile was corrupt. After unsuccessfully trying many fixes I conceded to start a new profile afresh. After doing so (and thinking that I fully ...

UAC helps protect the system from getting trashed by non-privileged apps. But how can I protect my data from getting trashed or misused by apps?
Example 1: An app silently modifies the tags in all my ...

I've had a good look for about an hour on this and have come up blank. Apologies in advance if I'm wasting everybody's time with an elementary question. Running Windows 7.
I've created a new Chrome ...

On logon of the system, Windows 7 Home Premium automatically creates a new user profile with a pre-determined name.
When I deleted the profile and create a new profile with that name and then reboot ...

So I just re-installed Ubuntu, but before I did, I grabbed my old gnome-terminal profile.
Now I want to put that profile wherever it is that gnome keeps the profiles, so I can select it through the ...

I changed the location on all of my personal folders(shell folders), then realized that when browsing for a file from chrome, the favorites menu in the explorer navigation pane was empty. I went to ...

I keep the /Users directory on a separate hard drive, /Volumes/Media. I recently upgraded my main drive via a fresh install from Mavericks to Yosemite. I have two users (not including root): seamus ...

I am having an issue with my Windows 7 profile and was hoping somebody can help me sort it out.
I am on a domain and the other day after trying to resume after hibernation as I always do, I couldn't ...

I have a user on my domain that when she logs out, her profile seems to get removed and recreated. First it was C:\Users\Username, then Username.Domain, then Username.Domain.000, and the numbers kept ...

I've set up a VM, where I only allow local user profiles via group policy.
If I log in with my domain account, the location of the "Personal"-Folder which is by default "Documents" always points to a ...

I suppose this has been mentioned before, but the answers are quite inconsistent and might not totally address what I am looking for.
I have a user profile created, and I want to delete all types of ...

I had a Dell workstation running Win 7 32bit. Motherboard Died. I pulled the harddrive and put into an external USB drive shell. I can access the drive from the NEW machine but the main user profile ...

I have a Windows 7 Pro machine that I recently have set up. I joined the domain and when I attempt to login as a certain user, a temporary profile is loaded.
I have followed all of the typical steps ...